The Renegades played our last game of the winter regular season on Sunday afternoon. This game was against a team called the Ducks. We played these guys a few times during the year and were never able to scratch out a victory. In fact, we haven't done all that well this winter. On paper it doesn't look too bad as we had 13 victories going into this game. But... five of those were against the two teams that are below us in the standings. Four wins came against teams that have been moved down into lower divisions. And, four wins came against teams in the division 7 of the north conference of our league. Those north conference wins were all against lower teams in the standings. Going into this game we didn't expect to be able to win. But, the guys that showed up played a really solid game. We were down a couple of skaters and had a backup goaltender but we managed to scratch out a 7-4 victory, sealed with an empty net goal at the end. The game finished very rough and chippy and there were quite a few penalties, mostly to the Ducks as they became frustrated. We ended our 28 game regular season in 6th place out of 8 teams with a record of 14 wins, 12 losses and 2 overtime losses. We now start playoffs next weekend.
Our matchup to start is against a team called the Panthers. They got moved into our division partway through the season so we only played them twice. We lost by a score of 6-2 in late October, but then took a game to overtime and lost in January. The first round of the playoffs is a best-of three and we will get our first chance this Sunday... a morning game. It doesn't sound all that bad if you say it fast enough... "8:45AM ice time"... but this is the day that Daylight Savings Time begins so it is really a 7:45AM puck drop. The game is on the north side of the city so allowing time to get up, eat something, get ready, drive to the rink and get dressed I probably have to get up at about 6:15 AM...!!
I don't do well with early mornings... but this is playoff hockey...!!!
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